Get Your Date a Ride
Not only is Hinge in the romantic setup and date-arranging business. The technology company, which got its start locally in the 1776 startup incubator and is now in D.C., is also offering tips and...
View ArticleCutting Out the Digital Middleman
Facebook’s where I post links to music videos and songs that I’m rocking out to as of late. It’s where I jot down observations or overheard conversations and direct friends to an article that I find...
View ArticleThe Universal World of Singledom
Every now and then we need to escape our lives. Getting away is therapeutic and oh-so-necessary. This is especially true in the Type A Land that is the Washington region. Well, I did escape recently,...
View ArticleDattch for the Ladies
By now, I assumed every group, subset or niche that was dating or in search of love had an application or two or three to call its own. I was wrong. Turns out there’s one distinct class that hasn’t yet...
View ArticleLulu, The Male Review Site
First things first: There’s a dating app out there that can best be described as “Yelp for singles.” Lulu, which has somehow slipped under my radar and been around since February 2013, lets women rate...
View ArticleMaking It to the Contacts List is Today’s Big Feat in Dating
Here’s a weird confession for you: The text message section of my phone is an absolute mess. A good half of it reflects normal exchanges with friends. Most of these are sheer logistics. “Sitting at the...
View ArticleConversation of Q Leads a Date
When conversation slips past pleasantries, you’re getting to the good stuff. Sure, meeting a new person entails covering some mandatory topics: Where are you from? Where do you live now? Do you enjoy...
View ArticleAn Unwanted Good Morning Salute
Let’s talk about explicit photos for a moment, shall we? The topic is on my mind again because I had a bit of an episode this morning in that respect, and I’m still somewhat traumatized. Perhaps...
View ArticleCuddlr Gets You Close to Strangers in a Public, Intimate Way
Tinder and I are on a break. I needed a hiatus from the flurry of come-ons, dirty messages and questionable pictures that thrive on the platform. So I haven’t been actively using it for the last...
View ArticleCelebrities Use Dating Apps Too
Tinder is not just for us average Joes and regular folk anymore Apparently NFL players have even gotten into the swiping act. The Wall Street Journal, in a story that surprised and amused me, got...
View ArticleMarriage as Happenstance, Not as a Hope
“Top Chef” is one of my favorite shows on TV. Chefs compete, and their cooking does the talking. Personalities are part of the mix of ingredients. But generally over-the-top drama is not. Sometimes you...
View ArticleYour Next Hookup Could Be Your Marriage Partner
Hookup culture is more often than not stigmatized, judged and fretted over. I can’t think of how many analyses I’ve read worried (nay, distraught) about the way in which college students interact with...
View ArticleFinding Love in Your Forties Just Got a Bit Easier
Singles in their 20s and 30s, for the most part, have their bases covered when it comes to dating apps and websites. From Tinder to Coffee Meets Bagel, there are ample choices for hooking up, going on...
View ArticleThe 40-Year-Old Man Mindset on Dating
Showing up to a launch party geared for 40-something singles when you’re not one is, well, an adventure. I did that to get a sense of LoveBeginsAt, a new platform for those unmarried souls past their...
View ArticleWave of the Future? Video Dates.
Like a lot of us, Jason Sherman’s had some shoddy dating experiences. Of particular frustration to him: the constant emailing back and forth just to make plans to meet. Then once in person many of the...
View ArticleDoes Abstinence Make You Smarter?
Naked-gate, the term coined for the veritable band of celebrities’ phones being hacked into and their naked and compromising photos being stolen and placed online for all the world to see, has awakened...
View ArticleUnnecessary Apologies
I’m sure it’s no surprise that when ladies get together they talk about the men in their lives. Married women brag and complain about their husbands, sometimes in the same breath. Single females talk...
View ArticleOverseas Admirers
I’m currently on the road for a work project. But no complaints from my end. I get to gallavant around the Middle East. First up was Tel Aviv, where I managed to acquire a gentleman admirer. During my...
View ArticleWinter Mate Meet-ups
Every single single person I know falls in and out of love with dating websites and apps. A bad experience turns them off enough to take a break from it altogether. And then after a long enough time...
View ArticleOld in Dating Terms
It’s a youth culture we live in. This I know. But, on the opposite end of the spectrum, there are people living to be 80, 90, even past a century old nowadays. And for that reason Jay-Z’s “40 is the...
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